Re: Unicode.org files
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> I believe that is a free software license. RMS has reviewed it and
> thought it was OK. If people here would review it as well, that may
> be useful.
To simplify review, below is the Unicode Consortium's license.
FWIW, I recall that RMS reviewed it for Emacs. I don't remember
whether Emacs actually incorporate (parts of) the Unicode tables now.
The intended feature was blocked by the old license, but may not have
been finished after the license was modified.
Regards,
Simon
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